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April 24, 2005 Buried Answers By DAVID DOBBS hen Dr. Alan Schiller's 87-year-old mother died in January, ''it took some convincing,'' Schiller says, to get his siblings to agree to an autopsy. ''They said: 'She had Alzheimer's. Let her rest.' But I told them: 'No, something seems funny to me. An autopsy is the only way to be sure.''' Schiller prevailed. A tanned, quick-minded, gregarious man in his 60's, he is naturally persuasive, and as chairman of pathology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he carries a certain authority regarding autopsies. The word ''autopsy,'' he reminded...

Published Monday, April 11, 2005 Autopsies Don't Explain Deaths Toxicology tests will be done on the sisters' bodies to test for the presence of drugs. By Dana Willhoit The Ledger LAKELAND -- Autopsies didn't pinpoint what killed twin sisters who were found in their motel room Friday, officials said Sunday. Toxicology tests will be conducted to determine whether drugs were in the sisters' systems, but the results of those tests may not be known for several weeks, said Dr. Stephen Nelson, Polk County's medical examiner. An examination of the bodies Sunday didn't find any trauma injuries that would explain the...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A videotape of James Earl Ray's autopsy is up for sale, the brother of Martin Luther King Jr.'s confessed killer said Monday. Jerry Ray said he hopes to sell the two-hour video for up to $400,000, though no firm price has been set. "A lot of people have an interest in things like that," Ray said. Ray made the announcement on a sidewalk near the National Civil Rights Museum on the site of King's assassination on April 4, 1968. Ray intended to hold a news conference just below the balcony where King was felled by a rifle...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - Legal setbacks for Terri Schiavo's parents continue even after the brain-damaged woman's death. The Pinellas County Medical Examiner's Office denied the parents' request to have independent medical experts observe Schiavo's autopsy has been denied. Over their seven-years-long legal battle, Bob and Mary Schindler sought independent investigation of their daughter's condition. They wanted to select a neuropathologist and a forensic expert to observe her autopsy. The autopsy was completed yesterday. Results are not expected for several weeks. Terri Schiavo's body was cremated today. Her husband plans to bury her remains in a family plot in Pennsylvania. He...

Michael Schiavo has said he hopes the autopsy will settle questions about his wife's medical condition, but experts differ on whether that will happen. He declined to comment Friday. Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, and Michael Schiavo spent Friday planning separate funerals for the 41-year-old woman, who died Thursday -- nearly two weeks after her feeding tube was removed.

"Dr. Jacqueline Martin was reading a newspaper article about Terri Schiavo when a name from the past leaped out at her: Dr. Jon Thogmartin. Six years ago, Thogmartin, the motorcycle-riding former Texan who succeeded Martin as Palm Beach County's chief medical examiner...." "Schiavo's autopsy already caused some public stir after her parents and husband both called for the postmirtem this week. Thogmartin's office said it would conduct the autopsy because state law requires it, and that "family requests are immaterial".

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - Medical examiners concluded an autopsy on Terri Schiavo on Friday, and prepared to release her remains to family members who continued to fight bitterly over the case of the brain-damaged woman who became the flashpoint for a nationwide debate over right-to-die issues. "The examination included routine forensic autopsy procedures, supplemented by full post mortem X-rays," the Pinellas County, Fla., medical examiner's office said in a statement. "Terri Schiavo's remains are ready for release to the establishment selected by the legally authorized person, for purposes of final disposition. "

Dr. Cyril H. Wecht, the well-known forensic pathologist and coroner of Allegheny County, Pa., told listeners of a morning radio show that he was denied permission to observe Terri Schiavo's autopsy, despite the wishes of her parents. A medical examiner in Pinellas County, Florida, is conducting an autopsy that could help determine what Schiavo's state of consciousness was and whether she was abused by her husband, as the Schindlers allege. Wecht, appearing on the syndicated America's Morning Show with Quinn and Rose, based in Pittsburgh, said that an investigator working for the Schindler's law firm had called him on Thursday...

Earlier thread stated: Just announced on FoxNews that Dr.Jon Thogmartin, District Chief Medical Examiner for Pinellas County, Florida will hold a press conference at 3:30 PM EST to discuss and answer questions regarding the autopsy that he will perform on Terri Schindler Schiavo. State of Florida can take custody of the body to do an unbaised full autopsy independent of Pinellas Country officials where investigation of alledged physical abuse can be investigated. This is something Jeb Bush can do.

Just announced on FoxNews that Dr.Jon Thogmartin, District Chief Medical Examiner for Pinellas County, Florida will hold a press conference at 3:30 PM EST to discuss and answer questions regarding the autopsy that he will perform on Terri Schindler Schiavo.

This just in; on Fox News, they said that an autopsy will be performed on Terri's body.

Title XXIXPUBLIC HEALTH Chapter 406MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF DEAD BODIES 406.11">406.11 Examinations, investigations, and autopsies.-- (1) In any of the following circumstances involving the death of a human being, the medical examiner of the district in which the death occurred or the body was found shall determine the cause of death and shall, for that purpose, make or have performed such examinations, investigations, and autopsies as he or she shall deem necessary or as shall be requested by the state attorney: (a) When any person dies in the state: 1. Of criminal violence. 2. By accident. 3. By suicide. 4....

I urge all of you not to abandon this issue if Terry is killed.Does anyone else think an autopsy should be demanded to determine if the State of Florida and the Federal Courts have assisted Mr.Schiavo in the murder of his wife? I understand that there is a large body of evidence(including a police report and a doctor's testimony),testimony,and motive to indicate that Mr. Schiavo desired his wife's death,and that her accident may have been no accident.

I understand the Turkish Press Site has been hard to access all day - but wanted my freeper buddies to be able to read this article..... Arafat's personal doctor calls for autopsy AFP: 11/11/2004 CAIRO, Nov 11 (AFP) - The personal physician of Yasser Arafat called for an inquiry into the cause of the veteran Palestinian leader's death on Thursday. "I demand an official inquiry and an autopsy ... so the Palestinian people can learn in all transparency what caused the death" of their leader, Dr Ashraf al-Kurdi said on Al-Jazeera television only hours before Arafat was due to be...

McDonald said that he and Reeve had spoken about the possibility of donating his brain and spinal cord for study. But Goldberg said yesterday that there would be no autopsy.

Ten years after the U.S. Air Force closed its books on the claim that a UFO crashed in Roswell, N.M., in 1947, a top Democratic Party figure wants to reopen the investigation into the cosmic legend. Despite denials by federal officials, many UFO buffs cherish the notion that in early summer of 1947, a flying saucer crashed in rural Roswell, scattering alien bodies and saucer debris across the terrain. Now Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who chaired the recent Democratic convention in Boston, says in his foreword to a new book that "the mystery surrounding this crash has never...

AIM Activist's Funeral to Go on, Family Fighting Request for Third Autopsy By Carson Walker/Associated Press Jun 18, 2004 SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Days before the planned funeral and reburial of an American Indian Movement activist killed nearly 30 years ago, lawyers for two men charged in her death are seeking a third autopsy in hopes of absolving their clients. The family of Anna Mae Pictou Aquash intends to go ahead with Monday's funeral on the Indian Brook Reserve near Halifax, Nova Scotia, and only the reburial is in question, said Denise Maloney, her older daughter. U.S. prosecutors believe...

<p>LONDON (AP) -- British health authorities were negligent when they removed organs from hundreds of dead children without the consent of their parents, a High Court judge ruled Friday.</p> <p>Judge Sir William Gage also said families whose children's organs were removed during hospital post-mortems could seek compensation from the local health authorities involved.</p>

The 2003 Florida Statutes Title XLVI CRIMES Chapter 872 OFFENSES CONCERNING DEAD BODIES AND GRAVES 872.03 Cremating human bodies; limitation.-- (1) It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to cremate any dead human body prior to the expiration of 48 hours after the death of such human body. (2) Anyone convicted for the violation of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083. History.--ss. 1, 2, ch. 21780, 1943; s. 1135, ch. 71-136. Title XXIX PUBLIC HEALTH Chapter 406 MEDICAL EXAMINERS; DISPOSITION OF DEAD...

Student newspaper takes Earnhardt autopsy photos case to Supreme Court GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- In a case stemming from the death of race car driver Dale Earnhardt, a student newspaper asked the Supreme Court on Monday to overturn a Florida court decision that restricts access to autopsy photos. The publisher of the Independent Florida Alligator contends that a law passed after Earnhardt's death during a 2001 race is unconstitutional. The statute bars public access to autopsy photos. In July, Florida's Supreme Court declined to review decisions by lower courts upholding the law, including a trial court's initial ruling. The Alligator...